If the Ethiopian people can progressively claim their country, they may help mankind leap from Homo sapiens to homo cyborg and beyond.
Well, how else should you differentiate hetero from homo? Hmmm.
What if the Floresians are descended from modern humans, not from Homo erectus?
London, Ana Matronic points out, is their "home away from homo".
This suggests that the Floresians are descended from Homo sapiens, not Homo erectus.
It is inconceivable that a tiny-brained offshoot from Homo erectus or some earlier hominid lineage would have independently developed such a big technological breakthrough.
This mirror theory of plausibility would still account for the high ranking of yetis, which, aside from not existing, are not so different from Homo sapiens.
It's set in a future world in which cyborgs co-exist with humans, and artificial intelligence constitutes an evolutionary leap from Homo sapiens as we know them now.
Given what is on the record so far, the argument that the Floresians are descended from Homo sapiens, not erectus, has a certain parsimony.
Chimpanzees may be our closest living relatives, having diverged from Homo sapiens about five million years ago, but they can be hot-tempered, argumentative, sometimes violent.
"Suites of features from head to feet set the Flores individuals apart from Homo sapiens, which is why this is a new species," she said in an interview.
